We need to view adversity in business through the lens of inevitability… to live is to face challenges. What is not inevitable is how we react to them, and who we become as a result. Having been through my fair share of business challenges, particularly…

Gold Coast entrepreneurs Nik Mirkovic and Alex Tomic were only 21 and 22, when they invested $20,000 of their own money into launching teeth whitening company HiSmile. Spotting a gap in the market, Nik and Alex decided to produce a vegan-friendly, cruelty-free teeth-whitening range that includes a…

In September 2015 it finally hit me…. I was burnt out. I woke up on a Wednesday like any other day, however I physically couldn’t get out of bed. For the first time in my life I felt immobilised but I wasn’t sick or…

This is the stuff I LIVE for… read on to see why. Early stage / high growth business owners list ‘access to capital’ as their number one barrier to growth. We want to invest in building the team, growing our tech, buying more stock, investing…

Business are built brick by brick, day by day. So often the day of a CEO isn’t glamorous, it’s meetings, conversations, thinking and strategising. This episode is an insight into a day when I’m in CEO mode. From 8:30am to 10:30pm through meetings with my…

How far you go in business is directly relative to your level of obsession. We don’t get to start a business, sit back on a beach and watch the customers, money and success roll in. Instead building a business takes hard work, hustle, long hours… If…

As entrepreneurs, there’s often a conflict: do I follow my head here? Or should I follow my heart? But it shouldn’t be a choice of one OR the other… that’s dangerous. In business you need to marry the two. Develop the intellect but only as…

Revolutions that challenge conventional thinking have generally have one thing in common… they build from a grassroots groundswell. Having the intent to create change is not enough, you need to be able to inspire and rally the people around you to come on the journey…

2016 was a challenging year. It was the kind of year where each day feels like it’s passing in slow motion because so much is going on around you. The kind of year that pushes you to the edges of your inner resolve and just…